Pushing a new cybersecurity product out now can be a bit like shouting into a storm. Yet, at the risk of sounding like someone who has spent months drinking the Kool-Aid, the launch of RangeForce Team Readiness brings something a bit different.
We think it is the closest a skills platform has got to earning a de facto place in defensive tooling.
So how did we achieve this? Exercising in a range improves readiness in ways siloed skills labs just can’t - teaching soft skills, tool usage, adversarial actions, kill-chains, time and stress management, processes and far more. Unfortunately, though, they have historically been unwieldy, expensive and detached from solo skills programs. This is what we fixed.
We did this in two ways. First - we refined years of range automation to the point where they can now be delivered with far lower cost and work. Customers can even run them themselves, whenever they want. Second, we integrated the range and solo labs into skills cycles, gave them clear objectives and made them measurable.
The platform achieves this with three interlinked components.
1. Readiness Pathways: Defensive teams are made up of individuals - each one with a different job and level of ability. Without skills plans that cater for this, upskilling is irrelevant to risk. But, building, running and measuring tailored programs is hard work. Readiness Pathways make this easy - automatically assigning customized plans for SOC Analysts, Security Engineers, PenTesters, Threat Hunters and more. To mature skills and maintain engagement, these include a mix of team drills and solo skills labs.
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2. Team Ready Cycles: Pathways are delivered in quarterly Team Ready Cycles. These 3 monthly upskilling sprints involve an exercise in a live environment, fighting full breaches or simulating triage for example, and then targeted solo labs fix the skills gaps these reveal. Automatically delivered through the platform, this ensures a regular rhythm of soft and technical skills development - relevant to your people and risk - with minimal management.
3. Readiness Mapping: Structured upskilling would be pointless without measurement. Readiness Mapping achieves this by providing users with an understanding of soft skills in managed team exercises and by overlaying technical skills onto MITRE, NIST and proprietary threat metrics. It also breaks down what skills are needed for specific threats, and whether you have these in your team. With a clearer picture of the current state, the next Team Ready Cycle can be more effective. Senior stakeholders can also understand ROI better.
Ultimately, the brief for the team was to create a platform that is as close as possible to being a frictionless, structured, way of building defensive team readiness. Not just a funnel for more skills. We think we have achieved this.
Did we fix the cost issue? Suffice to say, you can now get team exercising and solo skills development at a fraction of the price of competitors - you will have to speak with our sales team. First, though, we would love for you to give it a try and let us know what you think.
